Defence Aspirants

Tiananmen Square massacre On June 2, 2026 for the first time in more than three decades – Beijing’s Public Security Bureau barred the Tiananmen Mothers from setting foot in Wan’an Cemetery to mourn their dead. The ban marks a quiet inflection point: the regime is no longer content to police what is said about June 4, 1989. It now controls who may grieve, where, and in what silence.

The Indian Navy has taken another major step toward expanding its future leadership pipeline, with three new cadets’ squadron buildings inaugurated at the Indian Naval Academy as part of the Academy’s ongoing modernization drive. Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi virtually inaugurated the newly constructed squadrons on May 21 through video conferencing, marking a significant boost in the Academy’s infrastructure and training capacity.

Every year on the 28th of May, Pakistan throws itself a party. It’s called Youm-e-Takbeer – the “Day of Greatness” and it marks the morning in 1998 when the country detonated a handful of nuclear devices inside a mountain in Balochistan. There are flags. There are patriotic songs. There’s a public holiday. And honestly, from inside Pakistan, the emotion behind it makes complete sense. A nation that once felt it could be wiped off the map reached for the ultimate insurance policy, and it got it.